Harriet Tubman Quotes

Harriet Tubman (American - Activist)

 

1822 - 1913

 

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I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

 

 

 

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.

 

 

 

Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.

 

 

 

Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

 

 

 

I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

 

 

 

Never wound a snake; kill it.

 

 

 

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

 

 

 

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

 

 

 

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

 

 

 

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.